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bodoron
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July 7, 2017
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Installation fails on start

  • July 7, 2017
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Hello everyone. I'm an IT guy trying to help a user get her software working. I have an installation of Captivate provided by my software department.

We're using Windows 10. Not sure about the Captivate version. The folder just says "Adobe Captivate 2017". Both on mine, and the user's, computer when we try to install it we just get this:

The support advisor is nowhere to be found, and it's impossible to get help from Adobe for a product we actually bought.


I found a log file here: c:\users\(username)\appdata\local\temp\pdapp.log which shows an error:

07/07/17 15:21:05:931 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | Build Version - 9.0.0.108

07/07/17 15:21:05:931 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | Logging Level verbosity Set  to 4

07/07/17 15:21:05:951 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 592 | Event Guid generated is: 'e95411bf-1caf-4aec-9670-ceaf83c381d7'

07/07/17 15:21:05:953 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | Start Adobe Setup

07/07/17 15:21:05:953 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | TimeLog: Bootstrapper Start

07/07/17 15:21:05:953 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | TimeLog: Start initial checks

07/07/17 15:21:05:953 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | Dictionary Path: C:\Temp\Adobe Captivate 2017\resources\Dictionary\en_US\stringTable.zdct

07/07/17 15:21:05:953 | [ERROR] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | Error finding locale language dictionary file. Defaulting to english.

07/07/17 15:21:05:953 | [ERROR] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | Error finding english dictionary file.

07/07/17 15:21:05:953 | [ERROR] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | Unable to initialize ZString library

07/07/17 15:21:05:953 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup | PIM |  |  | 592 | XML is valid

07/07/17 15:21:05:953 | [WARN] |  | ASU | Setup | PIM |  |  | 592 | Failed to find Node

07/07/17 15:21:05:953 | [WARN] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | Reboot is pending from earlier installation.

07/07/17 15:21:05:968 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | Event with guid 'e95411bf-1caf-4aec-9670-ceaf83c381d7' is being sent

07/07/17 15:21:05:968 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | GetIEProxyInfo - No default proxy present on the user machine

07/07/17 15:21:05:968 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | GetIEProxyInfo - proxy Url is

07/07/17 15:21:05:968 | [FATAL] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 12744 | Unable to load pim.dll. LastError is: 126

07/07/17 15:21:05:968 | [FATAL] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 12744 | Unable to load PIM and/or find functions

07/07/17 15:21:05:968 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 12744 | Event Guid generated is: '4d4f25e9-e493-454a-8142-066d1c96a108'

07/07/17 15:21:05:968 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 12744 | Event Guid generated is: 'e94e1a52-5fbf-48df-9a7e-6b1de0d80351'

07/07/17 15:21:06:485 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 12432 | HTTP Request Status code 200.

07/07/17 15:21:06:485 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | The http request returned HTTP_Status:0 HttpCommunicator error:0

07/07/17 15:21:06:485 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | Event with guid '4d4f25e9-e493-454a-8142-066d1c96a108' is being sent

07/07/17 15:21:06:485 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | GetIEProxyInfo - No default proxy present on the user machine

07/07/17 15:21:06:485 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | GetIEProxyInfo - proxy Url is

07/07/17 15:21:06:753 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup | Setup |  |  | 592 | =================  End Adobe Setup. Exit code: -3  =================

07/07/17 15:21:06:753 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 592 | Waiting for the async thread to get the task completed

07/07/17 15:21:06:869 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 12432 | HTTP Request Status code 200.

07/07/17 15:21:06:869 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | The http request returned HTTP_Status:0 HttpCommunicator error:0

07/07/17 15:21:06:869 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | Event with guid 'e94e1a52-5fbf-48df-9a7e-6b1de0d80351' is being sent

07/07/17 15:21:06:869 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | GetIEProxyInfo - No default proxy present on the user machine

07/07/17 15:21:06:869 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | GetIEProxyInfo - proxy Url is

07/07/17 15:21:07:232 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 12432 | HTTP Request Status code 200.

07/07/17 15:21:07:232 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | The http request returned HTTP_Status:0 HttpCommunicator error:0

07/07/17 15:21:07:248 | [INFO] |  | ASU | Setup |  |  |  | 13168 | Async thread is completed. Now exiting from function.

I really hope someone can help me with this as my user needs this software.

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1 reply

Lilybiri
Legend
July 7, 2017

Hmmm, you say 'Captivate 2017' which is version 10, but the log shows '9.0.0.108' as build. It should be 10.0.0.192.

Was a previous version installed?

bodoron
bodoronAuthor
Participant
July 12, 2017

No. I've tried installing it both on my and the user's computer. In both cases the computers were newly installed.